Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:01:55 -0400 (EDT), Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 02 October 2011 18:43:50 Stephen Powell wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 11:34:23 -0400 (EDT), Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: ... the length came over form [from] France, but a good deal more recently than 1066

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:19:36 -0400 (EDT), Walter Hurry wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:37:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: A well-known example is Toys R Us I don't think that needs explanation. Toys Я Us is an American company. Yes, of course. But consul tores (obviously not his real name

[OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-01 Thread Stephen Powell
that they drink tea instead of coffee. By the way really mad to an American means really angry, not really crazy, just in case you didn't know. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:44:41 -0400 (EDT), Lisi wrote: On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote: In England, tea means a full meal. Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate. ... Hmm. Maybe that's Australia I was thinking of and I got the two countries mixed up. Anyway

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:36:23 -0400 (EDT), John Hasler wrote: Stephen Powell writes: And I didn't know that the British sense existed. Amazing, isn't it? Two cultures divided by a common language. Look up the British meanings of fanny and stuffed. I did. They're quite different from

Re: Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-30 Thread Stephen Powell
. It is covered in the Alternatives section and is mentioned here and there throughout the document. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Updated Kernel-building Web Page Available

2011-09-29 Thread Stephen Powell
in the Maintenance Log section doesn't show a date of September 29, 2011, you're looking at an older cached version of the page. Reload the page (F5 in iceweasel) to see the most recent version of the page. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
, is http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm But, to each his own. Whatever floats your boat, man. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 07:53:59 -0400 (EDT), Camaleón wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: If you decide to try kernel-package, make sure that you apply the patch file listed in the web page. It won't work properly with a version 3 kernel unless you do. Hum... you mean the one for EDID? I've compiled

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-25 Thread Stephen Powell
, and they want to use it, fine. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/378607842.2110586.1316993197410

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
to support that. Note that there is a patch you will need for kernel-package if you're using a version 3 kernel. See my kernel-building web page for details. http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm If you have a quad-core machine, you can set CONCURRENCY_LEVEL to 4. -- .''`. Stephen

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
apply the patch file listed in the web page. It won't work properly with a version 3 kernel unless you do. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
debugging information (if this isn't done by default). Thanks for the tips, Tom! I believe I'll incorporate one or both of those tips during the next revision of my kernel-building web page. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Reducing kernel compilation time

2011-09-24 Thread Stephen Powell
time. And it is easy to make a mistake. For example, I've learned from experience that I need SCSI support in my kernel, even though I have no SCSI adapter in my machine. So much stuff emulates SCSI now, or uses SCSI protocols in communication. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: How the kernel knows?

2011-09-22 Thread Stephen Powell
after making changes and before rebooting. For example, update-initramfs -uk $(uname -r) Issue the above command as root. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#641563: Penn State's mirror is not updating

2011-09-14 Thread Stephen Powell
is expired (invalid since 4d 20h 45min 56s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Improvements to Debian for s/390 (was Java on Debian s/390)

2011-09-10 Thread Stephen Powell
. Yet the Debian package continues to use release 2.3. The package maintainer is aware of this, or should be, but I've seen no progress as of yet. Perhaps your influence might help. Respectfully yours, -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-09-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:04:00 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Jung wrote: On Saturday 27 August 2011 17:57:00 Stephen Powell wrote: I am in a hurry to get to a wedding; so I don't have time for a more thorough reply right now; but you might want to take a look at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-27 Thread Stephen Powell
to get to a wedding; so I don't have time for a more thorough reply right now; but you might want to take a look at http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Bug#578097: No support for CMS-formatted disks in parted

2011-08-11 Thread Stephen Powell
version of parted for Debian as soon as possible. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

For those of you having trouble with kernel-package and Linux V3 ...

2011-08-09 Thread Stephen Powell
version 3.81-8.1. There are reported problems with make version 3.82 and kernel-package. I haven't tried that yet. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Modifying the System Clock on a Running VM System

2011-08-03 Thread Stephen Powell
no longer use it. I wish you had said something sooner. I just finished writing my own version today. Oh well, it was a fun little project. But for reasons previously discussed, I will probably never use it in production. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: 3.0 kernel fails to compile

2011-08-02 Thread Stephen Powell
for kernel-package. See http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm for a complete explanation of my kernel-building methodology and the reasons behind it. You are of course entitled to disagree with me. ;-) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: 3.0 kernel fails to compile

2011-08-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 20:30:01 -0400 (EDT), Dave Witbrodt wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I don't like make deb-pkg that well for a number of reasons. One of them is that I get a linux-headers-* package and a libc-dev package too, whether I want them or not. make-kpkg is more flexible. I only

Re: lenny-squeeze upgrade - failed with grub-pc upgrade

2011-08-01 Thread Stephen Powell
to stay with grub-pc, stay on the line and maybe someone with grub-pc expertise will help you. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: restoring MBR

2011-08-01 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: 3.0 kernel fails to compile

2011-08-01 Thread Stephen Powell
symptom of Debian bug report 635536. (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635563). At the very least, the above bug report illustrates that there are known problems with kernel-package with the 3.0 kernel. I assume that Manoj is working on it. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

OT - boot floppy (was restoring MBR)

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
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Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
about how one goes about restoration in such cases. In most cases, one doesn't want to restore the entire 512-byte sector, but only a portion of it: up to, but not including, the partition table. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:52:53 -0400 (EDT), Aaron Toponce wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 04:50:35PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Sometimes restoring a backup copy of the master boot record can be even more dangerous than wiping it out. The master boot record contains the master boot

Re: Modifying the System Clock on a Running VM System

2011-07-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:47:59 -0400 (EDT), Rob van der Heij wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: Theoretically, it should be possible to do this with an assembler program which uses the SCK (SET CLOCK) instruction, in conjunction with the CP EXIT

Re: restoring MBR

2011-07-30 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:34:44 -0400 (EDT), Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: That's a pity. IIRC, lilo used to save that under /boot. It still does. And lilo is still available. And I still use it. Unfortunately, it's too late for the OP in this case. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Modifying the System Clock on a Running VM System

2011-07-29 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `-

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

2011-07-26 Thread Stephen Powell
(debian-user). And I don't like advertising on Debian sites, even unofficial ones. After all, Debian is a non-profit organization. (That's why its URL ends in .org instead of .com). -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: udisks and devices [was cannot mount floppy]

2011-07-24 Thread Stephen Powell
udisks? If so, here are some sources of information: man 1 udisks man 7 udisks man polkit man udisks-daemon man udisks-tcp-bridge /usr/share/doc/udisks/* Separate Debian package udisks-doc http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks HTH -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Symbolic links to kernel image files and initial RAM file system image files

2011-07-20 Thread Stephen Powell
want to wait until the last minute to bring up the subject. I want to give whoever needs to make changes plenty of time before the freeze to get things implemented. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Symbolic links to kernel image files and initial RAM file system image files

2011-07-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:25:37 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 07:39 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:52:59 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: Hook scripts will just perpetuate the use of the undocumented /etc/kernel-img.conf. Hmm. I don't

Symbolic links to kernel image files and initial RAM file system image files

2011-07-19 Thread Stephen Powell
post I have CC-ed debian-boot and debian-devel, as there may be interested parties on that list that are not subscribed to debian-kernel, but it is my intention that the discussion take place on debian-kernel. So please excuse this initial cross-post. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Symbolic links to kernel image files and initial RAM file system image files

2011-07-19 Thread Stephen Powell
post I have CC-ed debian-boot and debian-devel, as there may be interested parties on that list that are not subscribed to debian-kernel, but it is my intention that the discussion take place on debian-kernel. So please excuse this initial cross-post. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Symbolic links to kernel image files and initial RAM file system image files

2011-07-19 Thread Stephen Powell
post I have CC-ed debian-boot and debian-devel, as there may be interested parties on that list that are not subscribed to debian-kernel, but it is my intention that the discussion take place on debian-kernel. So please excuse this initial cross-post. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy [solved!]

2011-07-19 Thread Stephen Powell
exactly where, but it might shed more light on this situation. Thanks again, everyone- Glad you got it working. Thanks for the follow-up. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 04:58:27 -0400 (EDT), Tomas Kral wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 15:40 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: ... Issue man udisks for more information. Yes, this one did the trick... tcat@lynx:~$ udisks --mount /dev/fd0 Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/fd0 at /media

Re: NumLock in console

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
. This is a user-specific setting, not a global setting. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
one or until you find an installed package that requires an older library. Then try again. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-17 Thread Stephen Powell
Windows! ;-) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1441140062.735248.1310946914888.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Cannot mount floppies in Squeeze

2011-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
with no operands to see if and where it was mounted. If it is not mounted, use the udisks command to mount the floppy, instead of the regular mount command. Issue man udisks for more information. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: kernel compile error in wheezy

2011-07-16 Thread Stephen Powell
(and not a dependency) of bcc; so you may not have it installed on your system if you are in the habit of installing only dependencies and skipping recommendations. But it looks like it may be a requirement for compiling the kernel. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
installed and configured, it meets my needs quite well; and I have found it very reliable. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:50:10 -0400 (EDT), Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com wrote: ... both versions of Grub use unallocated sectors to store extra code when they are installed in the master boot record.  This can lead to conflicts

Re: GRUB OR LILO?

2011-07-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:54:31 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: If it's installed in the master boot record, yes. If Grub Version 2 is installed in a partition boot sector, I believe it reads a list of blocks, just as LILO does. Only for finding the bootloader itself

Re: cannot go back from nouveau to nv

2011-07-03 Thread Stephen Powell
. And then, if the lack of support for interlaced modes has not been addressed in nouveau, I will have to get rid of my monitor. (My monitor requires an interlaced mode. That's why I still use nv.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: migrate from cobol to postgresl

2011-07-01 Thread Stephen Powell
is a database access language. If you wanted to translate COBOL to C, that would make sense. But translating COBOL to SQL? That doesn't make sense. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#589452: nouveau driver doesn't work with interlaced video modes

2011-06-22 Thread Stephen Powell
://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/kernel/interlace.diff I used kernel 2.6.38 as my code base. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#589452: nouveau driver doesn't work with interlaced video modes

2011-06-22 Thread Stephen Powell
://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/kernel/interlace.diff I used kernel 2.6.38 as my code base. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Subscription

2011-06-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 05:05:04 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 23:13 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:50:28 -0400 (EDT), Morning Star wrote: i want to join this mailing lists because i have a question about debian. See http://www.debian.org

Re: Subscription

2011-06-10 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 21:50:28 -0400 (EDT), Morning Star wrote: i want to join this mailing lists because i have a question about debian. See http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ for instructions on how to subscribe. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-08 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/552547774.68755.1307583947919.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Bug#589452: nouveau driver doesn't work with interlaced video modes

2011-06-05 Thread Stephen Powell
far all my changes have been to generic KMS code and are not nouveau-specific. I'd rather wait to publish my fixes until I have everything working correctly. The trouble is I haven't had much time to work on it lately. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#589452: nouveau driver doesn't work with interlaced video modes

2011-06-05 Thread Stephen Powell
far all my changes have been to generic KMS code and are not nouveau-specific. I'd rather wait to publish my fixes until I have everything working correctly. The trouble is I haven't had much time to work on it lately. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Switch to LILO from Grub2 ?

2011-05-15 Thread Stephen Powell
might work. I don't know. Try it and see. But it requires the partition be ext2 or ext3, I think. extlinux won't work with other file systems (reiser, xfs, etc.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Stephen Powell
nv has been removed from the distribution and the old binary version doesn't work with the new X server. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] more details on problem with lenny, but we could install centos 4.6, maybe a bug in debian somewhere?

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 12 May 2011 19:22:53 -0400 (EDT), Christian Boitet wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: ... No, that's not right. Did you try an unmodified file, as I suggested? Here is the unmodified PARMFILE DEBIAN file, in hexadecimal ASCII. For readability, I have added a blank between each group

Re: Debian Version for System Z

2011-05-13 Thread Stephen Powell
you that Debian is not a supported environment and hang up. And then what good is the support that you're paying for? I love Debian for s390, but if I were going to use it I would want to use it in an all-open-source environment. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Debian Version for System Z

2011-05-12 Thread Stephen Powell
products, as well as about 25,000 others, are already packaged for Debian. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: [Linux/390 under z/VM 4.2.0] CP works forever (Lenny): new attempt

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Powell
(X'00' in either code) after the terminator out to 80 bytes. (Use SET NULLS ON in XEDIT.) I would issue SET VERIFY OFF H 1 80 in XEDIT just prior to the FILE command to verify the trailing linefeed and trailing nulls. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Debian Version for System Z

2011-05-11 Thread Stephen Powell
than 2G of real memory, since the kernel can allocate (in theory) up to a 2G address space to EACH user-space process. HTH -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-09 Thread Stephen Powell
/KernelModeSetting -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/400717695.466909.1304992325326.javamail.r...@md01

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Stephen Powell
; so I've been forced to go back to the nv driver. (The problem seems to be on the kernel side, however, not in the nouveau X driver itself.) -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Need /etc/apt/sources.list

2011-05-05 Thread Stephen Powell
anyway. There is a sample /etc/apt/sources.list file on my kernel-building web page: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/Kernel.htm Look for it under Step 1: Update Your sources.list File -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [stable] Patch [S390] pfault: fix token handling has been added to the 2.6.38-stable tree

2011-04-27 Thread Stephen Powell
, Greg. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- ___ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-27 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:39:16 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:32:43 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-24 22:19 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: ... The same bug can be reproduced by using the following kernel boot parameter: video=VGA-1:1024x768@87i

Re: DIAG

2011-04-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:46:31 -0400 (EDT), Gene P Walters wrote: I just tried that on a couple of DASD's and rebooted, but still doesn't show up in yast as being used. Is there a way I can check it outside of yast? cat /proc/dasd/devices -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:32:43 -0400 (EDT), Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-04-24 22:19 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: ... The same bug can be reproduced by using the following kernel boot parameter: video=VGA-1:1024x768@87i ... Please add these findings to the bug report. I will. But I

Re: [stable] Device table incorrect for drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c: 3880/3390 should be 3880/3380

2011-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:52:47 -0400 (EDT), Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 09:10:19AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:09:50 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Nieder wrote: If you run git log dd30ac3 --grep='dasd: correct device table', then the fix will show up

Bug#607416: [stable] Device table incorrect for drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c: 3880/3390 should be 3880/3380

2011-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:52:47 -0400 (EDT), Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 09:10:19AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:09:50 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Nieder wrote: If you run git log dd30ac3 --grep='dasd: correct device table', then the fix will show up

Bug#607416: [stable] Device table incorrect for drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c: 3880/3390 should be 3880/3380

2011-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 19:52:47 -0400 (EDT), Greg KH g...@kroah.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 09:10:19AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:09:50 -0400 (EDT), Jonathan Nieder wrote: If you run git log dd30ac3 --grep='dasd: correct device table', then the fix will show up

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 04:34:13 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:57:07 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: I can't use the nouveau driver because the nouveau driver doesn't work with interlaced video modes. I filed a bug report a good while ago. See http

Re: [stable] Device table incorrect for drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c: 3880/3390 should be 3880/3380

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell
2011 +0100 [S390] dasd: correct device table The 3880 storage control unit supports a 3380 device type, but not a 3390 device type. Reported-by: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland stefan.haberl...@de.ibm.com Signed-off

Bug#607416: Device table incorrect for drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c: 3880/3390 should be 3880/3380

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell
2011 +0100 [S390] dasd: correct device table The 3880 storage control unit supports a 3380 device type, but not a 3390 device type. Reported-by: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland stefan.haberl...@de.ibm.com Signed-off

Bug#607416: Device table incorrect for drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c: 3880/3390 should be 3880/3380

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell
2011 +0100 [S390] dasd: correct device table The 3880 storage control unit supports a 3380 device type, but not a 3390 device type. Reported-by: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland stefan.haberl...@de.ibm.com Signed-off

Re: kernel 2.6.38 on Lenny

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell
/releases/squeeze/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell
really did try hard to make nouveau work for me, but it just doesn't. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:14:39 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution. It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still maintained by the X.org developers for a while

Bug#607416: Bug #607416: Device table incorrect for drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c: 3880/3390 should be 3880/3380

2011-04-22 Thread Stephen Powell
...@kernel.org to port the whole commit? (It may have dependencies on previous commits and get complicated rather quickly.) Or do I ask them to cherry pick that one-line change in drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c? I could use some advice here. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#607416: Bug #607416: Device table incorrect for drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c: 3880/3390 should be 3880/3380

2011-04-22 Thread Stephen Powell
...@kernel.org to port the whole commit? (It may have dependencies on previous commits and get complicated rather quickly.) Or do I ask them to cherry pick that one-line change in drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c? I could use some advice here. -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Bug#622570: [OOPS s390] Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null)

2011-04-20 Thread Stephen Powell
than a few hours. Unfortunately, since I can't reproduce the problem on demand, I cannot say with 100% certainty that the problem is fixed, but it looks good and makes sense. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ

Bug#622570: [OOPS s390] Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null)

2011-04-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:34:01 -0400 (EDT), Heiko Carstens wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I installed linux-image-2.6.38-2-s390x version 2.6.38-3 on my up-to-date Wheezy system today. It runs in a virtual machine under z/VM 5.4.0 running in an LPAR on an IBM z/890. It IPLed just fine. After

Bug#622570: [OOPS s390] Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null)

2011-04-20 Thread Stephen Powell
than a few hours. Unfortunately, since I can't reproduce the problem on demand, I cannot say with 100% certainty that the problem is fixed, but it looks good and makes sense. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ

Bug#622570: [OOPS s390] Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null)

2011-04-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:34:01 -0400 (EDT), Heiko Carstens wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: I installed linux-image-2.6.38-2-s390x version 2.6.38-3 on my up-to-date Wheezy system today. It runs in a virtual machine under z/VM 5.4.0 running in an LPAR on an IBM z/890. It IPLed just fine. After

Re: Cannot mount floppy drive in Squeeze

2011-04-20 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:56:47 -0800, Peter Easthope wrote: Bob, Camaleon, Dom, Stephen, Tom others, I am replying to the last message I found in the thread. If there is one later, I didn't ignore it deliberately. * From: Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.com * Date: Mon, 6 Dec

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-04-18 Thread Stephen Powell
that uses the Nvidia drivers. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/772452800.21893.1303173917605

Bug#622570: linux-image-2.6.38-2-s390x: Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null)

2011-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:48:56 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: The problem appears to be fixed in the latest vanilla upstream kernel source, which at the time of this writing is 2.6.39-rc3. ... Oops! I spoke too soon. I checked the server before I went to bed last night, and it was still

Bug#622570: linux-image-2.6.38-2-s390x: Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null)

2011-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:48:56 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: The problem appears to be fixed in the latest vanilla upstream kernel source, which at the time of this writing is 2.6.39-rc3. ... Oops! I spoke too soon. I checked the server before I went to bed last night, and it was still

Re: error installing kernel-image

2011-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:24:34 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: I had a similar problem described here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/10/msg00264.html Stephen Powell gave the same advice as above. :-) Following that, I tried this: # grep -r yaird /etc

Re: error installing kernel-image, solved

2011-04-15 Thread Stephen Powell
scripts in /etc/kernel/postinst.d and /etc/kernel/postrm.d take care of creating and deleting the initial RAM file system images for custom kernels. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Bug#622570: linux-image-2.6.38-2-s390x: Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null).

2011-04-14 Thread Stephen Powell
the upstream vanilla kernel source until a Debian package containing the fix is available. Thanks, Jonathan. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Bug#622570: linux-image-2.6.38-2-s390x: Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address (null).

2011-04-14 Thread Stephen Powell
the upstream vanilla kernel source until a Debian package containing the fix is available. Thanks, Jonathan. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: error installing kernel-image

2011-04-14 Thread Stephen Powell
. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1663235433.261291.1302830538326.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com

Bug#607416: Device table incorrect for drivers/s390/block/dasd_eckd.c: 3880/3390 should be 3880/3380

2011-04-13 Thread Stephen Powell
620126 in package sysconfig-hardware for the same bug in another package. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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